During this monitoring period, maize and soybean are the main summer crops grown in Inner Mongolia.

CropWatch Agroclimatic Indicators (CWAIs) show that rainfall was above average (+58%). TEMP (-0.5°C) and RADPAR (-4%) were both below average. Abundant rainfall resulted in a higher-than-average BIOMSS estimate  (+21%) .But, drought in northern Shaanxi during the monitoring period and heavy rain in Shanxi in October resulted in below-average biomass accumulation potential (BIOMSS) in both areas. The NDVI development graph indicates above-average crop conditions during the whole period and they even exceeded the maximum of the 5YA in July. The spatial NDVI pattern shows that more than 80% of the crops were close to the 5YA, mainly distributed in Western Liaoning, northern Hebei and eastern Inner Mongolia. 2.1% of the cropped areas had a big drop in July and 15.1% of the region was below average throughout the season, mostly in the north of Shaanxi, which suffered from severe drought. The fraction of cropped arable land (CALF) reached 95% and VCIx was above average (0.97). Generally favorable crop production is expected for Inner Mongolia.

(a) Crop condition development graph based on NDVI  

(b) Spatial NDVI patterns compared to 5YA         (c) NDVI profiles

(d) Rainfall Index

(e) Temperature Index

(f) Maximum VCI

(g) Biomass departure